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Goose walk comes to Oxfordshire
Goose producers from all over the country will be gathering for their annual farm walk on Thursday October 15 at the Homewood family’s Radley farm in Oxfordshire where Christmas geese have been reared for 30 years.

The Homewood’s have benefited from the revival in popularity of the goose — once the nation’s favourite Christmas meal and now in increasing demand along with goose fat and goose eggs.

Members of British Goose Producers, part of the British Poultry Council, will see how Bill Homewood and his wife Kim produce 2350 geese, which graze by day the grassy paddocks at Peach Croft Farm. They have developed markets as far as Wales, Yorkshire and the South Coast, with 80 per cent sold through butchers and farm shops and the others through their own retail shop.

The visitors will also see the other enterprises including 8000 turkeys, 600 acres of arable crops and a pick-your-own venture starting with asparagus and soft fruit, then sweet corn and pumpkins in the autumn.

Bill’s mother Nancy has also gained a reputation for making pillows using — of course — goose feathers and down.